Aerostar International Inc S53A
N9140F is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Danville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S53A · all S53As and related versions
- Serial number
- S53A-3052
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ACA7E5 (octal 53123745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 29, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00363826
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spicer Todd
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 510 Orchard St
Danville, IL 61832-2465
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9140F, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Spicer Todd, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9140F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4622004, cancelled February 22, 1994). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N9140F: Accident on October 7, 2022 at Albuquerque, NM: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar International S53A · operated under 091
The pilot’s inability to find a suitable landing area in a critical fuel situation and his decision to land on a highway, which resulted in the balloon impacting a bridge railing and terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data